Introduction
metabaR is an R package which supports the importing, handling and post-bioinformatics evaluation and improvement of metabarcoding data quality. It provides a suite of functions to identify and filter common molecular artifacts produced during the experimental workflow, from sampling to sequencing, ideally using experimental controls.
Due to its simple structure, metabaR can easily be used in combination with other R packages commonly used for ecological analysis (vegan, ade4, ape, picante, etc.). In addition, it provides flexible graphical systems based on ggplot2 to vizualise data from both an ecological and experimental perspective.
Dependencies and Installation
metabaR relies on basic R functions and data structures so as to maximise fexibility and transposability across other packages. It has a minimal number of dependencies to essential R packages :
ggplot2,cowplot, andigraphfor visualisation purposesreshape2for data manipulation purposes
veganandade4for basic data analyses
seqinrandbiomformatfor data import or formatting.
To install metabaR, use :
And then load the package